Rain Dance (Star Trek: TOS story)

Fanfiction
Title:	Rain Dance
Author(s):	Alexis Fegan Black
Date(s):	1988
Length:
Genre(s):	slash
Fandom(s):	Star Trek: TOS
Relationship(s):	Kirk/Spock
External Links:
Click here for related articles on Fanlore.

Rain Dance is a Kirk/Spock story by Alexis Fegan Black.

art from Naked Times by Shellie Whild

art from Naked Times by Kay Wells

art from Naked Times by Virginia Lee Smith

It was published in the print zines Naked Times #18 and Speed of Light... & other K/S stories.

Summary

"When Spock realizes that his link to T'Pring is not broken, he tells Kirk that he needs to return to Vulcan to procure another bondmate, but Kirk is uneasy about Spock leaving and not coming back."

Reactions and Reviews

1994

Moody, intimate story of Spock after the breaking of the bond with T'Pring, going to the Vulcan desert to purge himself of the link that could drive him to insanity. Kirk follows after him and with a backdrop of a desert thunderstorm, they make love.

So much beautiful language and imagery in this story, it's impossible to mention it all. But especially lyrical and powerful were Kirk's memory/dream sequence of pon farr on Vulcan, and Spock's erotic dance that Kirk witnesses as the rain pours down.

"He was the incarnated devil of a hundred collective civilizations, a being who lived in the legends of all planets. And yet. like the mythical Satan of Earth, Spock was also beautiful. But now that beautiful demon had come to claim Kirk's soul."

And this perfect image: "His hands strayed sensuously over his body, smoothing the thick, fat droplets of rain into his skin as if they were a fine lotion." What an extraordinary sex scene— slow, unique and filled with more imagery of the rain and storm. Every action is detailed and tied in with nature, emotions or spirituality. Such as Spock penetrating Kirk and "opening him as if he were the petals of a fragile rose." And what an immediate image of the rain and their sweat being their lubricant.

I was enthralled with every moment, including the end when Spock still questions their bonding. In a scene that could easily have been artificial and forced, was instead painful and bittersweet as Kirk tells Spock he will never leave him.

So here is a tortured Spock who is still strong, and a confused and wanting Kirk, who is still supportive and loving.

An unusual and definitive K/S story that ends with Kirk asking Spock to make love to him again, in the rain.